Preclassic Maya NY52(
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31 WorldCat member
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There are 62 documents in this collection that cover the time period from 3800-1859 B.P. Notably, the collection contains
13 reports about Cerros and 14 reports about Cuello, sites in northern Preclassic Belize; and seven excavation reports of
El Mirador. Selections from The formation of complex society in southeastern Mesoamerica (Fowler); Archaeology at Cerros,
Belize, Central America (Robertson and Freidel); and Cuello, an early Maya community in Belize (Hammond) are contained within
this collection

Competition : a means to transform the defense industrial base by Richard D Hansen(
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edition published
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2003
in
English
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2 WorldCat member
libraries
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The United States national security and military strategies articulate the need to transform our forces and major defense
institutions to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The defense acquisition process and its industrial base comprise
a significant economic institution in need of transformation to ensure that research, development, and acquisition efforts
remain relevant to current, future, and emergency national security requirements. Transformation, therefore, must include
efforts to improve the defense acquisition process that would subsequently enable it to deliver products and services that
provide desired capabilities. Perpetual suggestions of acquisition reform often focus on regulatory and statutory leverage
and process reform. Acquisition reform, stable appropriations, spiral development, and innovative collaboration" are valuable
recommendations. However, few of them offer the significant benefits derived through market leverage, namely competition.
This paper reviews the weary acquisition process, the changing industrial landscape, and an emerging government policy, then
analyzes some ways the DoD should consider to leverage market conditions and improve competition as a means to transform the
defense industrial base. Competition can help reduce cycle times, lower costs, and improve innovation and weapon systems performance
throughout the weapon systems lifecycle, from development through sustainment. Moreover, competition will be imperative early
in the R & D phases, given the growing enthusiasm for evolutionary acquisition and quicker development and production cycle
times. As witnessed in both commercial and defense industries, competition not regulation, compels industry to integrate advanced
technologies into producible systems and deploy them to the marketplace in this case the warfighter-in the shortest time practicable